WEBVTT - Dancing with...Jodie Sweetin 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:16.560 Welcome to Danielle with the Stars. I am Danielle Fischel, 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:21.240 a TV director, a podcaster forever to Panga, and a 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.439 mom of two. Currently, though I am learning how to 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.800 ballroom dance one step at a time. You will see 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.480 me on season thirty four of Dancing with the Stars, 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.000 premiering September sixteenth on ABC and Disney Plus, and throughout 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:39.760 the process, I am recording this podcast chronicling my journey, 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:44.040 giving you the inside story of one celebrities quest for 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.800 a Mirror Ball Trophy. I am in the mix as 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.560 we speak, practicing every day for the debut episode, a 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.000 night that will mark the first time I have danced 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.360 in front of an audience since I recited a poem 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.600 for Corey and applied lipstick across my face on Boy 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.480 Meets at only twelve years old. Not kidding, but I 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.760 figure the best way to prep for the moment is 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.320 to talk to those who have competed before me, and 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.760 today I have the privilege of talking to another superhero 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:16.240 from the extended Podmeets World universe, a fellow tgiflum who 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.440 already competed on Dancing with the Stars and lived to 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.399 talk about it. She appeared on season twenty two of 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.520 the show back in twenty sixteen and was partnered with 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:30.039 dancer Kyo Mutzepi, finishing in sixth place and suffering one 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.600 of the more dramatic injuries in Dancing with the Star's history. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.840 But don't get it twisted like her ankle. Even though 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.800 week eight was her last, she went out with two 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.959 basically perfect scores, a thirty on her jive and a 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.120 twenty nine for her tango team up. She's the real 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.400 deal and I know I need her help. Today on 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.400 Danielle with the Stars, I am paired with Stephanie Tanner, 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.880 herself the iconic middle child of full and Fuller House 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.600 and the co host of How rutan Arito's Say Hello 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:07.000 to Jody Sweeten. Hello, Hello, Jody. Thank you so much 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.240 for agreeing to talk to me. I am for agreeing to. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.959 Talk to you as if I that's uh. 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.440 You're right, because I don't thank you, my friend. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.840 Yeah, yeah, I have agreed for these purposes only for 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.760 the next forty five to fifty five minutes, I. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:22.400 Will speak to you. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.520 Thank you. I really appreciate it. I know normally you 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.560 have a strict no Danielle policy too. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:28.280 Yeah. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:29.120 Yeah. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.680 From the second I met you, it's just been like, no, 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:32.720 we don't get along. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.040 We don't will we will not discuss Yeah, no, okay, 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.720 I know. But seriously, I really do appreciate it because 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:43.240 I am in week one of practice and not since 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.040 our Kushling's commercial have I felt this nervous about what 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:47.680 I'm doing. 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.800 So my god, Well, look, if you can handle Kushlings, 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:52.239 you can handle dancing with the stars, you know what 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:52.560 I mean. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.280 They're very transferable skills. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.680 Oh, very friends, that makes me feel a lot better. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.400 I I just wanted to know. Did I make a 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.400 bad decision here agreeing to do the show? I don't know. 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:02.880 I don't I don't know. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:08.760 Did you you like to dance and also be terrified 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.520 on live TV in front of a large room full 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:12.320 of screaming people? 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.120 So were you terrified even though you're a great dancer? Absolutely? 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.040 Oh my god, oh terrified. 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:19.480 Yes. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.639 I will tell you this. I will tell you this. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:29.399 You will learn to hate those three clicks, oh gosh, 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.520 because you'll hear them and that's when your music starts, 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.480 and when you're in the ballroom half the time you 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.040 can't hear it. Because people they want everybody to scream. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.680 So those the first. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.280 Like ten seconds when you're there and you're like, I 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:42.480 just want to hear the music. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.120 Because if you know, if you don't hear that, you're like, 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:45.840 you're going to be off. Yeah once if you start 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:47.920 off on a bad foot, how do you ever catch up? Right? 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:48.560 Right right right? 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.520 But no, I and I don't mean to scare you 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.600 because it was so much fun. It was such incredibly 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.080 hard work, but I loved it. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:56.760 And I I did it. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.440 I mean I used to go watch ballroom dance competitions 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.240 when I was like in my late teens. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:02.920 I'm a nerd and I love dance. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:03.880 That was your fun time. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:05.520 I mean not like. 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.080 Every weekend, but I definitely went to a few because 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.280 I loved ballroom dance and it was a type of 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.080 dance that I never did, and it was partnering, but 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.000 I just loved watching it. So when I got the 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:17.560 chance to do it, it was amazing. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:19.560 How did you get the chance to do it? Did 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.920 they approach you? What was the situation with how you 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:23.640 joined the season? Uh? 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.000 They approached me. It had been something I was like, oh, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:28.840 this would be fun, and we had talked about it 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:29.480 a little bit. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:30.280 I think. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.640 Maybe second season. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.520 I'm trying to remember what because we were shooting Fuller. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.280 We started shooting Fuller in twenty fifteen, and I want 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:41.240 to say it was twenty. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.920 Sixteen, like season two. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.760 I think that I did Dancing with the Stars and 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.120 they came to me. Max and Val had done an 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.159 episode on Fuller. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.280 House oh famous a famous dancer brother doing. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:59.320 The Answer Brothers, the Schmikowsky's, and Candace had been VAL's 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.440 partner when she did Dancing with Stars, and so they 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.599 had done an episode and it was super fun and 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.200 you know, and so then it was just kind of 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:13.280 like I think that was maybe the seed planted amongst 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.720 them a little bit, but it definitely once I went 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.599 back to Fuller that that was kind of when it happened. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.320 And then I got eliminated the night before I went 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.120 back to start working on season three, Season two season anyway, 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.520 So yeah, I would have been doing both shows and 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.040 I was like, yeah, I could do it. And then 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.800 once I started back doing Fuller, I was like, I 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:34.480 am so glad I'm doing too. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.000 How would it have been possible? 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:37.840 I don't know. 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.760 It was one of those things where like I do, 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.880 I say yes and then figure it and then panic later. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:46.360 Yeah. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:48.680 So it's how I try to. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.640 Rule my life is just sure and then go, oh 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:51.680 my god, what have you done? 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.880 What have you done? Help me figure this out? Someone 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:54.200 helped me. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:54.440 Yeah. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.200 Yeah, yeah, but no, I was glad that because that 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.120 would have been a lot, because it's as you do. Oh, 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:01.680 I mean you're in just the first week, but it's 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.560 a lot anyway, Yeah, it's a lot. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.480 And I think maybe the rules have changed. I don't 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:06.040 know about when. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.440 Yeah, like, what are the rules now post COVID post. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.280 It's been a long time. It's been almost ten years 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:10.480 since I. 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.000 Well, they they're limiting it, limiting us currently to only 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.680 four hours a day, five days a week. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.160 That was, we have a limit, okay, have a limit 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.680 four hours a day, five days a week. But I 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.480 that was I went full out from. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.560 Day one, got it. That's what I figured. I figured 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.039 you were. Yeah. I want to talk a little bit 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:28.680 about your dance history, because I know you had never 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.320 done ballroom before, but if people remember full House or 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.600 have just kept track of your history and memes, they 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.159 would know that if. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.400 You've seen a me, I mean you've seen me dancing. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.840 Yeah, when did you start dancing? As a kid. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.159 Uh, dance was the first thing I ever did. I 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:51.240 started dancing when I was about three. I started in 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:55.000 like ballet and tap and you know, just having fun. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.200 But I loved it. I always loved performing. And really 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.039 my first day dance recital was where my mom kind 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.320 of saw that, like not saw that I was like 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.200 enjoyed performing, but saw that I had zero problem being 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.600 on a stage and moving other people out of the 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.880 way so I could excuse me, you get Oh. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:14.080 No. 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.200 I was dressed as a little cabbage patch with a 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:23.160 giant nineteen eighty four ok so, okayay, five sequins satin 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.760 homemade costumes I had. I had like a giant bonnet 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.559 thing for like look like a little cabbage patch kid. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.000 And that was my ballet number. And then I was 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.200 dressed like a small duck. Oh my tap dancing number 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:40.320 called I Am a dancing duck. I am the dancing duck. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.280 I am Tap tap tup. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:43.520 Yeah. 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.760 Oh my gosh, do a video of this. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.680 It's on VHS and my parents have it. But I 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.600 do have the costume some okay, I have Oh, I 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.160 have the little duck costume. I've got little orange tights 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.840 that are probably this big you hitting my little tap 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.480 shoes and the little feathers and the hat. 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.680 Oh yeah yeah. So, as you mentioned, it's a difference 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.640 than doing a partner dance. Absolutely. Do you think having 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.040 a background and dance helped you or hurt you? 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.000 Of course, no, having a background and dance definitely helps. 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.239 I mean it gives you the baseline for everything, okay, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.760 for turns, for holds, for a posture. 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.200 All of that kind of stuff. Great, I have zero I'm. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:24.680 Hand placement all of that. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.480 It just makes it a little easier if your hands 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.240 don't look like this, you know you're used to kind 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:29.200 of blowing them or whatever. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.360 What was I saying? It? Did dance help you work? 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:34.920 Thank you? 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.520 There we go, So it helps me. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.079 I'm not doing Dancing with the Stars now because I 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.480 forget my own name. You No, it definitely helped. It 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.560 definitely helped, and because I loved it, I wanted to 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.600 do it every day. I mean I want I was like, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.440 I want to dance four hours a day every day 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:51.920 and push myself right. 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.960 And so how quickly did you adjust to being with 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:55.480 a partner. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:03.800 Well, you learn very quickly that your job is sort 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:04.439 of just to. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:09.600 Follow okay, which is hard. Yeah, and I think. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.360 You're probably much like I am, and you're like no, no, no, no, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.640 I'm I can't charge. Yeah, I gotta know what I'm doing. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.040 And so that was like the hardest thing was really holds. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.560 You think you're just in a hold and dancing, but 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.840 like no, no, no, your back and your arms and you're like, 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.800 it's And I remember when I. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:32.720 We had a switch up week. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.199 I was with Keo and we had val and he 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:39.720 would make me wear weights on my hands so that 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.920 then when you took the weights off, it was that 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.000 much easier to hold your hand, you know what I mean. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.760 So you got used to having that. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:48.000 Sort of weight. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.640 Yeah, it's it was a lot, but it definitely having 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.440 a back a dance background was kind of key. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.680 I think it helped kind of push. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:57.560 Me along a little further. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.839 And Okay, I definitely think it helped who I think 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:05.440 who won our season was Gingersy, and I think she 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:06.800 had some dance background as well. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.360 So it can help, Okay, it can help for sure. Okay, great, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.440 well I don't have that so but let me tell. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:17.200 You there's also been like amazing ice skaters, ice dancers 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.520 and other dancers that just don't make it the show. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:24.240 You never do we know of any klutzy middle aged 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:28.880 women who've won, oh, who've won? Because that's what that's 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.400 what I'm going for. I'm a real, real klutzy middle 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.319 aged woman. I'm gonna just try to learn some grace. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.320 I feel like, learn, learn some grace, be patient with yourself. Okay, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:44.440 somewhere around week three or four, you'll probably have a meltdown. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.000 that's kind of what it happens. It's I found that like, 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.199 by the like week four, I had been practicing. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.000 Every day, we had had a couple of show, Like, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:54.920 I was just. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.559 Burnt, and it was like my brain stopped being able 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.000 to kind of absorb information for like two days. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.120 Yeah, and I yeah, it was did. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.200 You slow down during those days? Did you? Then? 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.600 No? No, no, no, But I did throw a fit. 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.240 I did in the middle of my rehearsal. I wasn't 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.040 getting something. I don't remember what it was, but it 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.080 was like one of those stupid things were for whatever 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.040 reason in my brain, I was like turning right. 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:21.480 And it was supposed to be left, and I just 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:22.600 couldn't get it. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.160 And I was just frustrated, and so I tried to 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.080 make a really dramatic exit to the bathroom, okay, and 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.320 the door handle wouldn't work, and so I was just 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.920 spinning the door handle on camera because you know, they 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.959 precred everything while trying to and I actually it made 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.400 me laugh at myself because I was like, Okay, yeah, 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:41.839 I mean, what are you gonna settle down? 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:43.480 You're really having a tanta Yeah, I. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.000 Mean I still had to go have a little tantrum 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.239 and like cry in the bathroom, and then I was like, okay. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.679 Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, Well, thank you for thinking it's 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.559 I'm going to get to week four before I breakdown. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.439 But I do appreciate that you are absolutely going to 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:57.440 make it to week for. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.959 Okay, thank you. Can we talk about wardrobe also, because 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.920 I don't really fully know what I'm in for with 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.880 the outfits, so any advice you have is appreciated. How 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.760 much input do you have in the things you wear? 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.560 A fair amount, okay, because they come. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:18.319 To your rehearsals usually, okay, the wardrobe people. They will 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.560 come to your rehearsals and see what your dance. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.800 Looks like, so that whatever they are. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.120 Creating for you kind of work well. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.760 And there's also like you know, fox trot, some of 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.720 the like baller dances like that you have to wear 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:34.360 a long dress. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.199 That's you know, samba. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.080 You're always in a like sort of swingy little thing 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:40.720 because it makes your hips look really great. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.880 But you will you will have people changing you and 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.240 putting body makeup in places while you're standing in. 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.800 A room full of crowded people, and you will. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.160 The thing about dance, live theater and live television is 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.600 you learn there is no modesty. You're like, I don't 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.600 I have a quick change. I have to change from 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.040 one number to the next, and I'm getting. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.280 Naked right here. Yeah, I gotta do it. 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:09.160 They don't make you get naked in front of the 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.000 whole room of people, but it's you're like, just we 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:13.719 gotta get this done, like you gotta go. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:18.319 You know. I remember thinking before I had children, someone 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.079 saying like I don't remember what I had said, but 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.679 saying something like and then so then you just have 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.320 all those people in the room. And my mom said, oh, yeah, Dangelle, 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.360 you're not thinking about it when you're getting burn And 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.240 I was like, oh, I bet I'm gonna think about it. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:30.959 And then guess what I guess you're not about it. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.040 It's amazing how things certain things take. 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.679 Over and you're like, I don't care, don't get it 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:41.920 all of it. Yeah, but yeah, I mean that. I 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.160 will say it's really fun. The costumes are really fun. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.079 But I will warn you you do not dance in 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.640 your costume right until dress rehearsal. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.160 Okay, which is the day before the show. No, I 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.679 mean the day of the show. Oh you don't you 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:00.680 for camera blocking, you're not in your wardrobe. 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.480 Uh no, wow, camera block and you're not in your wardrobe. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.200 You wear your wardrobe day of the show. At least 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.600 we did our season day of the show for your 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.400 dress rehearsal that day. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.600 Oh my gosh. And let me tell you. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.120 It throws things off sometimes because when we did our samba, 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:23.960 I was used to. 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.760 Turning with zero weight on me. 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:27.360 Yeah. 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.920 I put a beaded dress on that weighed probably twelve pounds. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:33.440 Oh my gosh. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.120 And all of the beating is at the hips. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:36.920 So when you're turning now, Kio was like, you got 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.320 to turn harder, Like you can't, it's not reading. And 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.200 I'm like I'm trying, you know, like swowing my hips 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:46.160 around and yeah, like that's Another thing that you don't 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.880 think of is all of a sudden, once you have 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.760 that on things that you may have been. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:52.720 Doing in gym clothes. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.280 Yes, all of a sudden you It just makes it 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:57.240 a little bit different. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.680 So wow, okay, that's really good to think about, Like, yeah, 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.400 what am I gonna be wearing? How quickly am I? 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.640 How am I gonna need? Does swing these hips? Yeah? 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:05.920 Yeah? 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:13.480 How important does picking songs end up being? It's pretty important. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.360 But they have a lot to say, so, like, okay, 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.040 they have most of the say is like it'll usually 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.960 be like, oh, here's whatever, the few songs, the five 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.120 songs that we like for this particular dance style or whatever, 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.000 and then they'll kind of choose one and sometimes they'll 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.040 be like, those are great, we didn't pick any of those. 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:30.160 So here's what you're gonna do. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:30.440 You know. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.800 It's yeah for week one? For you, who did you 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:39.280 invite into the audience to watch? Uh? Week one? I 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:45.720 believe it was my parents and my kids. Oh I think, yeah, I. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.600 Think I'm trying to think of people I invited kind 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:53.080 of over time. I know Lori Lachlan came, Candice came, 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:55.440 I believe Andrea came. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.400 And then just like you know, other friends and stuff. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:01.840 But yeah, I think it was my parents and my 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.840 kids and the audience theft for that first one that 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:04.800 is so cute. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.800 Uh. Did you have immediate chemistry with Kio or was 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.720 it something that grew over time? Did it click right away? 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.160 What was your relationship like with him? 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.440 It clicked right away. We got along so well and 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:18.440 we had so much fun. 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:19.080 And I. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.840 Was actually really grateful for him as a teacher because 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:30.280 he was patient but pushed me, if that makes sense, 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:35.600 like he it wasn't. I mean, look, Max and Val 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.920 are amazing dancers, but the Ukrainian methods of teaching things 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:44.560 are strict. Again waits you know you're dancing with a 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:45.440 broom handle. 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.000 And you're it's right, it's uh, it's strict. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.400 It's a lot and uh and and Q I think 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.120 was able to push me in ways, but also knew 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.720 when I was like again, having a frustrated moment, and 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:58.840 he'd be like, okay, let's you know. 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.600 What, let's say and we would just be stupid and laugh. 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.880 And we had all kinds of little inside jokes and 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.760 you know, code words and stuff, and you know, when 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.879 you're dancing out there, doing the show. You're talking to 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.600 each other the whole time. Yeah, and you know you 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.360 are just like in it and yeah, you really. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:21.040 I mean, you definitely get to know and trust the 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:22.280 people that you're out there dancing with. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.840 And I'd say for women on the show, it's a 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:30.359 little bit different because the guys, the male contestants are 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.720 kind of they have to lead and they don't know how, 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:36.480 you know what I mean, So like it's sort of 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.800 a I think in some ways, being a woman on 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.840 the show is a little bit easier in that you 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:46.159 can kind of fall into the trust of going with 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.800 your partner a little bit easier, which is kind of 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:50.920 one of the keys of ballroom. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.600 Yeah, it's interesting you say that because in all the 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.240 seasons I've watched, I've always thought, man, the women have 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.000 it so much harder. It feels like they have to 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.480 do so many more, like they do somebody or spins 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.040 and and and I noticed, no matter what my I 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.000 is watching the woman, I'm just watching, well, I'm just 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:08.800 watching her dance. 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:10.800 That's why we get the fancy costumes and the thing. 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.040 And it is true, you're as women, you you are 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:18.280 expected to do more because the male dancer of in 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.000 partners just kind of leading and sort of the position 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.840 there while somebody else. So it is in that regard, 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.840 like their partner can do a lot of showy things 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:29.360 and you're like, I'm not even looking at him. 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:33.560 You guys agree that dance was amazing, amazing you were there. 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:38.680 Yeah, but yeah, it's but also like knowing that you 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.200 can kind of relax and you don't have to be 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.800 the yeah, the one to remember every single next step right, 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.119 they'll put you in right, although I did when we 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:51.040 did our season, I did have to dance with another contestant. 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:55.240